[9fans] Re: Sam & Acme & 8c questions

["Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>]

Blake McBride wrote:
> Comment:  If you start sam with a single file argument it
> would be VERY convinient to have sam automatically
> open and display that file taking up its entire data area.

Agreed.  You have the source; when you figure out how to do it
let us all know.

> Question 1.  In sam (or acme) how can I select more lines
> than can fit on the screen?

In sam, put the text cursor at the start of the region, enter
the command .= (or maybe just =) to display the value of dot,
put the text cursor at the end of the region, enter the command
{start_dot_value},. to select the region.

> Question 3:  Most C compilers (or actually their pre-processors)
> have some standard defines so that your program can tell what
> it's being compiled for at compile time (like _unix_ or __WIN32).
> Does the Plan 9 compiler have some standard defines?

Not that I know of, but you can add to CFLAGS in your Makefiles
-D__plan9_version__=4 or some such.